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Physicists Deploy Quantum Sensors to Hunt the Universe’s Missing Matter
Dark matter makes up most of the universe’s mass, yet it has never been directly detected. Scientists are now deploying ultracold quantum sensors, underground detectors and space telescopes to catch its faint signals. At Texas A&M, new silicon detectors aim to register extremely rare particle interactions, while global experiments push sensitivit...
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Fusion Reactors Could Generate Axions, Offering a New Path to Detect Dark Matter
Fusion energy may have an unexpected cosmic role beyond clean power. A new study suggests fusion reactors could produce axions, hypothetical dark matter particles, when high-energy neutrons from fusion reactions strike reactor walls. These interactions may generate axions that escape shielding undetected. Scientists propose future fusion plants cou...
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Neutrino Detectors May Unlock the Search for Light Dark Matter, Physicists Say
Physicists now believe that massive neutrino detectors—built to observe rare solar and cosmic particles—could also detect extremely light dark matter that traditional experiments miss. By monitoring subtle annual variations in their background signals, observatories like JUNO and Borexino may open a new frontier in uncovering the universe’s m...
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Berkeley Lab Researchers Record Successful Startup of Next-Generation LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector
Berkeley Lab Researchers recently recorded the successful startup of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, the next-generation dark matter detector that is housed below the Black Hills in South Dakota at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF). The experiment is one of three Generation 2 dark matter experiments selected by the US Department of Ener...
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Gravitational Wave Detectors Could Unlock Dark Matter Mystery
The same instruments used in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of gravitational waves caused by colliding black holes could help unlock the secrets of dark matter, scientists, including one of Indian origin, say.
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ESA's Mission to Map Dark Energy Gets Detectors From NASA
NASA has delivered three detector systems for the European Space Agency's upcoming Euclid mission that aims to study properties and effects of dark matter and dark energy.
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European Space Agency's Mission To Map Dark Energy Gets Detectors From NASA
NASA has delivered three detector systems for the European Space Agency's upcoming Euclid mission that aims to study properties and effects of dark matter and dark energy.
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World's Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector In The Offing
A next-generation dark matter detector that will be at least 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor is on schedule to begin its deep-underground hunt for theoretical particles known as WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles.
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World's Most Sensitive Detector Fails To Find Dark Matter
The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has failed to yield any trace of the elusive substance thought to account for more than four-fifths of the mass of the universe, even after 20 months of operation.
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World's Most Sensitive Detector Hoped to Spot Dark Matter
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment has already proven itself to be the most sensitive detector in the hunt for dark matter.
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Physicists Deploy Quantum Sensors to Hunt the Universe’s Missing Matter
Dark matter makes up most of the universe’s mass, yet it has never been directly detected. Scientists are now deploying ultracold quantum sensors, underground detectors and space telescopes to catch its faint signals. At Texas A&M, new silicon detectors aim to register extremely rare particle interactions, while global experiments push sensitivit...
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Fusion Reactors Could Generate Axions, Offering a New Path to Detect Dark Matter
Fusion energy may have an unexpected cosmic role beyond clean power. A new study suggests fusion reactors could produce axions, hypothetical dark matter particles, when high-energy neutrons from fusion reactions strike reactor walls. These interactions may generate axions that escape shielding undetected. Scientists propose future fusion plants cou...
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Neutrino Detectors May Unlock the Search for Light Dark Matter, Physicists Say
Physicists now believe that massive neutrino detectors—built to observe rare solar and cosmic particles—could also detect extremely light dark matter that traditional experiments miss. By monitoring subtle annual variations in their background signals, observatories like JUNO and Borexino may open a new frontier in uncovering the universe’s m...
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Berkeley Lab Researchers Record Successful Startup of Next-Generation LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector
Berkeley Lab Researchers recently recorded the successful startup of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, the next-generation dark matter detector that is housed below the Black Hills in South Dakota at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF). The experiment is one of three Generation 2 dark matter experiments selected by the US Department of Ener...
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Gravitational Wave Detectors Could Unlock Dark Matter Mystery
The same instruments used in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of gravitational waves caused by colliding black holes could help unlock the secrets of dark matter, scientists, including one of Indian origin, say.
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ESA's Mission to Map Dark Energy Gets Detectors From NASA
NASA has delivered three detector systems for the European Space Agency's upcoming Euclid mission that aims to study properties and effects of dark matter and dark energy.
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European Space Agency's Mission To Map Dark Energy Gets Detectors From NASA
NASA has delivered three detector systems for the European Space Agency's upcoming Euclid mission that aims to study properties and effects of dark matter and dark energy.
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World's Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector In The Offing
A next-generation dark matter detector that will be at least 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor is on schedule to begin its deep-underground hunt for theoretical particles known as WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles.
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World's Most Sensitive Detector Fails To Find Dark Matter
The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has failed to yield any trace of the elusive substance thought to account for more than four-fifths of the mass of the universe, even after 20 months of operation.
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World's Most Sensitive Detector Hoped to Spot Dark Matter
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment has already proven itself to be the most sensitive detector in the hunt for dark matter.
